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In the most recent JINSA Global Briefing, Khatuna Mshvidobadze discusses social media becoming a powerful political force and how it played an important role in Russia during the run up to the March 4 elections for that country's parliament and presidency. The Putin regime, it seems, turned some of the cyber techniques employed against Georgia against its own domestic opposition.

In the latest JINSA Global Briefing, Hudson Institute Senior Fellows Seth Cropsey and Jun Isomura discuss how to lessen the chance for a greater nuclear disaster in Japan focusing on increased international cooperation and more effective crisis management from the Japanese political leadership.

Prof. M.D. Nalapat of India's Manipal University highlights key lessons for any country combating terrorism in his analysis of the critical decisions that led to the defeat of one of the world's most resilient terrorist insurgent groups, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

In the latest JINSA Global Briefing, Khatuna Mshvidobadze, a Senior Associate at the Georgian Security Analysis Center in Tbilisi, Georgia, explains that the recent installation of the S-300 air defense system in the Russian-occupied Georgian region of Abkhazia is yet one more Russian step designed to cement Moscow's dominance over the South Caucasus East-West Corridor, in which the United States has a strategic interest.

In the latest JINSA Global Briefing, Prof. M.D. Nalapat, of India's Manipal University, explains that if India can surmount its ossified and regressive political structures and empower its citizens it could take a leading role in the Anglosphere - the group of wealthy, democratic, English-speaking countries of the world. For its part, he contends, the Obama administration has yet to demonstrate that it recognizes what India - the world's most populous English-speaking country - can bring to the cause of regional and global stability, security and prosperity.

In the latest JINSA Global Briefing, M.D. Nalapat, Vice-Chair of the Manipal Advanced Research Group and UNESCO Peace Chair as well as Professor of Geopolitics at Manipal University in India's Karnataka State, explains that in the 21st century version of the Great Game, China seeks to replace the U.S. as the dominant player in Asia by manipulating Pakistan to ensure a NATO failure in Afghanistan.